Recovery from "Betrayal": Local Anti-Nuclear Movements and Party Politics in Taiwan

Description

This article investigates the history and
contemporary development of the local antinuclear
experience in Gongliao district, Taiwan.
It traces villagers' intricate relations with political
parties, their frustration with the decision
making process, and efforts to sustain local antinuclear
momentum at a time when the antinuclear
movement was in decline. By exploring
local villagers' three decades of anti-nuclear
efforts, this article focuses on their change of
tactics, networks and...[Show more] ideologies, and explains
how these changes had happened. It argues that
local anti-nuclear activists played an important
role in transforming an anti-nuclear movement
from a party-led activity to an issue-based protest
independent of party control. The transformation
was facilitated by the deepening of a place-based
consciousness among local activists.